Is there a way to disable all the items in a specific layout programmatically?

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I have A game to which I recently added a global high score functionality which made a lot of people upset so I want to add the option of disabling it. What I did was this: in my settings activity view, I added the following:

<!-- High Score Tracking -->
 <LinearLayout android:layout_weight="40"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:orientation="vertical" android:padding="5dip">
  <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   <CheckBox android:text="@string/EnableHighscoreCBText"
    android:id="@+id/EnableHighscoreCB" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   </CheckBox>
  </LinearLayout>
  <!-- High score specific settings -->
  <LinearLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal"
   android:weightSum="100" android:padding="5dip">
   <CheckBox android:text="@string/EnableShareScoresCBText"
    android:id="@+id/EnableShareScoresCB" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   </CheckBox>

   <TextView android:id="@+id/DefaultPlayerNameTv"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="30"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/pDefName"
    android:textSize="18sp">
   </TextView>
   <EditText android:id="@+id/PlayerNameEt"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/pNameDefVal" android:layout_weight="70"
    android:textSize="18sp" android:maxLength="20">
   </EditText>
  </LinearLayout>
 </LinearLayout>

What I want to do is to disable the entire "High score specific settings" layout when the user unchecks the enable high score tracking check box. I tried disabling it by setting the setEnabled to false, but that didn't work at all. Should I be using a viewgroup or something? Is there a refresh method I should run to apply the change?

Which view did you set setEnabled on? What effect are you looking for? If you just want to hide the whole section you can set visibility = GONE on the linearLayout. — Cheryl Simon, Sep 29 '10 at 00:45
I'm not looking for hiding it, I want it shown, but as disabled (so that people will know it's there but will see that they can't change it) — ekatz, Sep 29 '10 at 05:45

score 37 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '11 at 09:28

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Add a View.OnClickListener to your CheckBox then pass the View you want to be disabled into the following function...

private void enableDisableView(View view, boolean enabled) {
    view.setEnabled(enabled);

    if ( view instanceof ViewGroup ) {
        ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup)view;

        for ( int idx = 0 ; idx < group.getChildCount() ; idx++ ) {
            enableDisableView(group.getChildAt(idx), enabled);
        }
    }
}

answered Mar 10 '11 at 09:28

benshort

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Smart use of recursion! – PureSpider Oct 08 '13 at 19:28
+1000 it's really work find with all of layout such as listview . u save my time . – Adnan Abdollah Zaki Jul 02 '15 at 12:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '10 at 21:45

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Just control the visiblity parameter for the Layout via setVisibility(). You can switch it between three values: visible, invisible and gone (see the documentation).

I think in your case the most senseful would be to switch between visible and gone.

answered Oct 01 '10 at 21:45

Marcin Gil

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '10 at 01:15

Apparently the correct way to do it is by using preferences... I'm reading about it now, but I think that's what people should use if they are trying to implement something like that check out the following links for more information on this:

http://android-journey.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-almost-any-application-we-need-to.html and developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/app/MyPreference.html developer.android.com/reference/android/preference/Preference.html

Is there a way to disable all the items in a specific layout programmatically?

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